gvsu isnt going anywhere for the foreseeable future. NKU would be a great addition but are being courted very heavily by the OVC. chicago state used to be in the TSL when it was the mid con, so if theyve cleaned up their act they MIGHT get an invite back. UND has resolved their name problem so the hybrid TSL/BSC is possible. UND can also leave the BSC without the exit fee for now.

st cloud state & minnesota state mankota/duluth could be d2 targets but both have the football problem. windsor could be a target as well but also have the problem of switching to the NCAA & then they also have a football program too.

TSL wont add football. the mvfc would invite ND if they had a partner to move up with, or if youngstown state ever decided to bounce which has been rumored before. if ND had a partner to move up with, that would put them at 12 & could have separate divisions. IE nd & st cloud/minnesota state-mankota/minnisota state-duluth/windsor/grand valley state. all 5 of those schools have a fb program & are in division 2 or the CIS.

With the OVC passing on expansion, and NKU's first choice being the OVC, I completely expect the Summit to extend an invitation to NKU and for NKU to accept. Makes too much sense when you look at their needs, what they bring to the table, and the Summits need for a new school. In the perfect world, there would be a football school to join the MVFC and for UND to make the switch to the Summit/MVFC, but that isn't gonna happen. But NKU would give the Summit a Cincy presence to add to the footprint without pushing it too far.

I think the guys in both divisions would prefer this, since it's less travel by eastern schools to the Dakotas....

Only thing is...the MVFC has the same pool now they had before. So they could have made a home for UND them and added a school like you mentioned for #12. But they didn't. So that means either the school wasn't interested or the MVFC wasn't.

Yeah (referring to UNO, joining the Summit, and abruptly dropping football and wrestling).

I think Trev Alberts had a vision for them getting to the D-1 level, and the Nebraska legislature wasn't prepared to suddenly provide additional funding for everything.I had HEARD (but maybe this is crap) that UN-Lincoln is THE D-1 football school, and it was known that the state wasn't going to fund competing FB schools within the state.Alberts seemed to have decided that UN-Omaha would then establish itself by becoming THE D-1 hockey school in the state, and made a big splash coaching hire, jumped to the WCHA, and then to the new NCHC.

So I'm not certain whether UNO explored MVFC membership, or the school internally decided to drop FB and re-allocate financial resources.UNO moved so quickly (we didn't even know discussions were taking place) that I'm not sure there was time to lobby the MVFC.I haven't seen any evidence as to which was the case. If you've come across any specifics, please post.

If the Summit could get the MVFC to add North Dakota (Big Sky) and Eastern Illinois (OVC), it would keep all of the I-29 corridor schools paired togehter, and give WIU a better in-conference rival.

Bellarmine would likely want to go to the Atlantic Sun with Northern Kentucky, who just joined that conference.

Minnesota State (Mankato), Minnesota-Duluth, and Saint Cloud State would probably be interested, but all would need to figure out what to do with their football programs as well. The SL might not want to take on any more upgrades from Division II as well.

If the conference is ready to make amends with Chicago State, they could work instead of Eastern Illinois, but that would complicate North Dakota's football situation.

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